"Desperate people, in desperate times. Obviously, someone was very hungry. I hope they enjoyed the lunch. Maybe this person will someday send this guy some money to pay for the meal.

"Quite a long time ago, a lady stole a sixpack of Schmidt's beer off my porch. I had just brought it home from the store. It was nice and cold and inexpensive. I went in the house for 5 minutes, and when I returned it was gone. After questioning her for a few minutes, my neighbor downstairs admitted to taking it. At first she denied it. She was in rough shape. I didn't know it, but she had cancer, and was dirt poor. We shared the beer."

-- By rocknruler at the Real-Time News blog, on the story, "Burglar steals Sullivan man's lunch"

Post-Standard TV: Don't miss Steve Pallone's mini-documentary on the foster family of Olympian Lopez Lomong. Watch for it at blog.syracuse.com/video.

"My Congressional district in New York, number 24, ranks #27 out of 29. Number 29 being worst. My district rates so bad because of (tada!) HIGH taxes, LOW income, and BAD health.

"So, we are poor, paying politicians through the nose, and having heart attacks from the stress. And the point is??"

BuffaloPundit notices that City Made Inc., which assembles and sells Made in Buffalo gift packages of local culinary favorites, is moving to Tonawanda. 

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Guinea pork

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Guinea pigs wearing Peruvian local dresses are shown during the Guinea pig food festival in Huacho, Peru. Guinea pigs are native to the high Andes ... and tasty.

Check out The New York Times video on moving day at Records Revisited, the noted records shop in Manhattan run by the late Morton J. Savada, Nearly 200,000 78 RPM records have been donated to Syracuse University.

Upside of global warming: Kittens!

Each spring, according to the Scripps Howard News Service, the onset of warm weather and longer days drives female cats into heat, resulting in a few months of booming kitten populations known as "kitten season."

"The brain receives instructions to produce a hormone that basically initiates the heat cycle in a cat," said Nancy Peterson, feral cat program manager of the Humane Society of the United States, "and those instructions are affected by the length of day and usually the rising temperatures of spring."

This week's theme song:

"... I heard them say that you can have your cake and eat it;
But all I wanted was one free lunch;
How can I eat it when the man that's next to me, he grabbed it;
Lord, he beat me to the punch ..."